The Strata Manager will not provide a list of contact addresses for owners citing privacy issues but then won’t pass anything on.
The Privacy Act doesn’t cover the vast majority of strata schemes so any claims of privacy are BS. Strata law says owners are entitled to see any records held on behalf of the owners corporation, regardless of whether the committee, the strata manager or the owners want them to.
This includes the strata roll which should include the addresses of owners and residents (who are breaching strata law if they don’t register them).
If the strata manager uses email to communicate with strata owners you are entitled to see their email list. If they say the email list belongs to them (the latest way sneaky strata managers are avoiding owners communicating with each other) you are entitled to see all the communications they have made by email which will obviously include email addresses.
What do you do next? Tell the strata managers that they are acting illegally in denying you access to strata information and if they don’t stop it, you will be reporting them to Fair Trading and the SCA.
And do a search on this website for any other posts and articles on email addresses.